On a day when people are cheering the Obama pardoning and release of Bradley/Chelsea Manning because he only committed treason under Bush, so that doesn’t count, my giving a fuck is really strained.

So if forcing them to change plans at greatly increased expense is ok, why the fuck did we need the ACA in the first place? All the sob stories about the people who didn’t have coverage never concluded with “But a huge percentage of that are people who could just suck it up and go buy some insurance.”

So you get to be the self-appointed arbiter if their plan is good or not? Complete bullshit. A lot of those people have good plans that they liked. And the way that the corridors were written, there were plenty of plans that were better than some of the permissible plans which got canceled, because it did not happen…

“People losing their plans is only a problem if it happens under Trump, but not under Obama.”

Hi, FBI. You might want to ask Chaos-Cascade what he is advocating.

No conservative commentator I can think of believes Trump to be a fiscal conservative.

Obama.

Bill and Hillary RENTED OUT ROOMS IN THE WHITEHOUSE LIKE A FUCKING HOTEL FOR POLITICAL DONATIONS.

When he hits 333 rounds, I’ll start caring.

I don’t like that Trump can use his role to jack up the fees at his resorts, but...

These fiscal conservatives sure to do spend a lot.

Don’t forget about his children all receive Secret Service details. His two sons went South America or something and cost the tax payers millions.

Here’s my issue with the “It’s a higher rate!” argument:

I’d bet those numbers are subject to 40 kinds of fuckery. An obvious one being that people used to complain about Bush being “On vacation” at his ranch, when he was having meetings with world leaders. Like the building the meeting is held in means it doesn’t count.

What does it say about former pres Obama that used one jet to fly the first lady and family out to Hawaii a few hours before the pres himself? Michelle couldn’t wait to fly with her husband? And this scenario played out a number of times over 8 years.

Is Trump actually billing staff at his properties as if they were private citizens staying their on vacation? I understand the opposition to this as a potential problem, but I’m not sure that it is actually happening.

It’s high time we designate a Presidential vacation budget. Give them a set amount, they use it as they see fit. No bullshit like taking 1 meeting while on vacation and label it a “meeting” Just a simple, “You have $15m/year for personal vacations and 4 weekend trips to Camp David, enjoy”.

This reminds me of when people talked about the hypocrisy of Obama bashing executives flying their private jets, but then taking Air Force One out for a spin from DC to NYC just for dinner. Or Flotus taking her own rides on it when her vacation schedule didn’t match up with his.

Red October would be a perfect source for this. “Left Flank, 90 degrees” and such.

When you say “Help others”, why do you get to ignore all of the people who lost the coverage they liked because of ACA? But people who oppose the ACA don’t get to ignore those who could lose covearage under their plan?